During recent years,International Nephrology and Emergency Medicine Association preferred a cute kidney injury( AKI)rather than a cute renal failure for the diagnosis and intervention in the early phase of AKI,with the ultimate goal of reducing the mortality rate.It is not sensitive to diagnose AKI in the early phase only according to the change of urine output and serum ereatinine.It is reported that some new biomarkers are sensitive and specific and may play important roles for the early diagnosis of AKI.

Objective To investigate the serum proteomic patterns in lung cancer by surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization-time of flight-mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) techniques and build diagnostic models in order to evaluate their clinical significance by biomarkers screening in lung cancer.Methods SELDI-TOF-MS and CM-10 protein chip were used to detect the serum proteomic patterns of 38 lung squamous cell carcinoma and 30 lung adenocarcinomas,including the comparation in 34 geminate patient serums before and after surgery.Nagative control setted as a group of 50 normal tissues.BioMarker Wizard and BioMarker pattern system software were used in combination to analyze the data and to develop diagnostic models.Results Two protein peaks from a total of 167 were chosen as a biomarker pattern in the training set.Two protein peaks pattern (mass/charge ratio [m/z] 6 010,5 330) was observed in the model that could be used as to distinguish lung cancer from non-cancerous diseases.It yielded a sensitivity of 98 ％ and a specificity of 96 ％.There were 9 different protein peaks (P ＜ 0.05) between pre-surgery and post-surgery.There were 8 different peaks (P ＜ 0.05) between metastasis and non-metastasis.Conclusion SELDI techniques can be employed as diagnosis in lung cancer patients with relatively high sensitivity and specificity,and also could be used as an effective tool for the screening of lung cancer.

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have improved as well as the costs have gradually decreased in the detections of genetic diseases. This article describes the principle, platform, and data analysis of NGS and the application of NGS technologies to the molecular diagnosis of hereditary hearing loss (HL). The use of NGS technologies makes the discovery of HL genes more feasible than ever. And the data obtained by NGS used in genetic counseling for clinical practice may assist in defining genetic profiles of HL individuals and expedite the pace of personalized medical care.
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural ; diagnosis ; genetics ; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ; Humans

Fever was induced by ET in rabbits. The PGE_2 level in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was measured at peak of fever in both electric acupuncture and control group. The results showed that when the body temperature of animals rose to the peak, the PGE_2 levels in the plasma and CSF were higher than that before fever. (P

The challenges posed by norovirus infections to global health are increasing accompa-nied by the rapid rate of the genetic and antigenic evolution of circulating noroviruses. Due to lack of in vitro culture cells and small animal models, norovirus vaccine cannot be prepared by using traditional techniques. With the in-depth understanding and study of norovirus, the subunit vaccines against norovirus infection based on P particles have been developed and presented the characteristics of easily expressed, low cost, high immunogenicity, stable structure and so on. In addition, norovirus P particle has been used as a subvi-ral nanoparticle for vaccine development against other viruses and for antibody production against chronic dis-ease ( Alzheimer′s disease) , which benefits from the accommodation of foreign antigens in the three loops of P particle. In this review, we describe the progresses in the field of P particle related vaccines for providing suggestions about the research and development of multivalent vaccines in China.

Resource acquisition, subject service, information commons, volunteer service and service assessment in which the users participated are listed in this paper according to the cooperative goal structure theory and how to cooperate between libraries and users was described in aspects of working out system guidelines, establishing multi-level cooperation models and special organizations.

BACKGROUND: Cholinergic nervous system has a site which is affected by both blineurine and nerve growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase A (NGF-RTK-A). Whether cholinergic injury can affect the changes of tyrosine kinase A (TrKA) is significant to the application of nerve growth factor (NGF) to interfere cognitive disorder disease.OBJECTIVE: To observe the expressive variety of TrKA in different cerebral regions of rats with bilateral fimbria/fornix transection, and comprehend the effect of fimbria/fornix transection on nerve growth factor receptor system.DESIGN: A completely randomized and controlled study on the basis of animals.SETTING: Institute of Cerebrovascular Disease, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University Medical College.MATERIALS: The experiment was completed in the Institute of Cerebrovascular Disease, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University Medical College from March to December 2003. Totally 14 male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group and model group with 7 in each group.METHODS: The bilateral fimbria/fornix transection was performed on rats in the model group, but rats in the control group were treated with the same methods except fimbria/fornix transection. Twenty eight days after operation, rats in the two groups were killed under anesthesia to take out brain tissues to stain with immunohistochemical staining.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The number of positive TrKA cells in the hippocammpal CA1, cortex, amygdala and Meynert of the basal forebrain of rats in both groups.RESULTS: Totally 14 rats entered the final analysis. The numbers of positive TrKA cells in the hippocammpal CA1, cortex, amygdala and Meynert of the basal forebrain of rats in the model group were obviously smaller than those in the control group [(18.91 ±6.27), (15.17±5.23),(18.71±9.05), (8.03±2.33); (54.77±11.84), (59.69±10.40), (49.23±15.84),(21.49±15.54), t=4.17-10.00; P ＜ 0.01].CONCLUSION: The expression of TrkA positive neurons is decreased in many sections of the brain in the rats with fimbria/fornix transection.Possibly it is the cause leading to the cognitive disorder and senile dementia.

Objective To explore the effect of thymosin and MVP chemotherapy on the life quality of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) patients. Methods 50 cases of NSCLC patients who received MVP(MMC, VDS, DDP) chemotherapy,were randomly divided into experimental group (using thymosin α1) and control group;before chemotherapy and at the end of chemotherapy (the first 2 weeks), the quality of life was evaluated and analyzed comparatively by the FACT-L questionnaire of patients with lung cancer-Chinese version (V4.0). Results The re-sults of the experimental group score increased by (3.13±2.29),and control group score increased by(-1.07± 2.19) with significant differences (P<0.01). Conclusions Thymosin α1 can improve the short-term quality of life of the non-small cell lung cancer patients who received MVP chemotherapy.

Objective To establish and clinically evaluate a method to adjust tube current(mA)individually for obtaining images with consistent noise and optimized radiation dose in 64-slice spiral helical CT coronary angiography.Methods (1)80 patients,as a control group,were underwent CT coronary angiography(CTCA)using 64-muhislice spiral helical CT with fixed mA(650 mA).Two radiologists first assessed image quality of the fixed mA group by scoring from 1 to 5.A minimal dose requirement for meeting clinical diagnosis with the desired noise level(standard deviation SD0)were decided.By analyzing the images of the control group,we also established correlation between the image noises of timing bolus(TB)scans and cardiac(CA)scans and set up a formula to predict the required mA value for obtaining the desired cardiac image noise for individual patient.(2)Subsequently,another group of 80 patients(study group)wero scanned with individually adjusted mA using the established formula and the practicability of this method was then evaluated.The independent sample t test was used to compare the values of the two groups.Results (1)The noise of TB and CTCA scans was linearly correlated with r2=0.994. (2)A cardiac image noise level of 28 HU was found to be adequate for clinical diagnostic purpose based on the image quality analysis.(3)The average noise for the acquired cardiac images was found to be 28.97 HU for the study group with individually adapted mA using the established formula.The standard deviation of the image noisein study group was 1.93,which was much smaller than 5.14 in the fixed mA group,but the average image scores for the study group(4.27±0.68)and fixed group mA(4.03 4-0.93)were not statistically different.(4)In the study group,63 out of 80 patients required tube currents below the standard 650 mA,yielding an average CTDIvol of58.32 mGy,which was about 32.1%dose reduction than that of fixed mA(85.94 mGy).The lowest CTDIvol was 19.27 mGy with 160 mA which was 22.4%of the average CTDIvol in control group.Conclusion Adjusting mA individually based on timing bolus scan noise analysis is an accurate and practical method to obtain consistent image quality for different cardiac pailents and to minimize the radiation dose for individuals compared to the fixed mA.

Angiography ; methods ; Coronary Angiography ; methods ; Coronary Vessels ; pathology ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Angiography ; methods ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome ; diagnosis ; diagnostic imaging